Hero Hunt: Sorceress Super Hero Book 3 by Darius Brasher

Author:Darius Brasher [Brasher, Darius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daba Publishing
Published: 2019-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Dozens of candles lining shelves sputtered into flames as soon as we entered, illuminating the square, large, windowless room. The lights cast our flickering shadows everywhere, as if we were ghosts. Well, one of us was.

Maddy had not lit the candles with magic. Unlike a magic generalist like me, her knack was divination, and she could not perform elemental magic as I could. The candles must have been enchanted. The candles lighting themselves must have impressed the heck out of Maddy’s mundane clients.

Some of the candles were scented. With the door closed, the smell of lavender and incense quickly became cloyingly strong. Unlike the carpeted reception area, the floor here was wooden. The walls were too. An antique wood table, thick and sturdy, dominated the center of the square room. An Eye of Providence was etched on the table, covering its entire top. In the middle of the table was a crystal ball that was bigger than my head. It rested in a holder that looked like a dragon’s claw. It looked like a dragon’s claw because that was what it was—a fossilized dragon’s claw. Fossilized dragon remains were rare as hen’s teeth. Maddy had once told me this one was the most expensive thing she owned. Since I knew how much her seaside Baltic vacation home cost, that was saying something.

In front of the crystal ball was a deck of tarot cards spread out in an arc, in the fashion a poker room dealer spreads the cards of a new poker deck. Maddy sat in the cushioned chair positioned at the open end of the arc, on the other side of the table from me and Benjamin. Her pale hair refracted the candlelight and seemed to glow. It made her look even more otherworldly than she normally did. The glow was no accident. Maddy had once told me that being a psychic with a mostly mundane clientele was fifty percent showmanship, forty-nine percent being a therapist, and one percent using her psychic abilities.

Maddy raked the tarot cards together and began tapping them into a deck. A card popped out and landed on the table facedown. Expressionless, Maddy picked the card up and glanced at its face before sliding it back into the deck.

“I’m quite the butterfingers these days,” she said. “My hands aren’t as nimble as they once were. Be a dear and clear the rest of the table, would you Sage? The last time I moved the ball by myself, it aggravated my bursitis.”

“You don’t need the crystal ball to help you focus?”

“Not in this instance. Unless I miss my guess, I’ll be throwing a lot of raw magical power into finding Millennium. If I use the ball, I’m liable to overload it and make it explode. It’s like running too much electric current through a low amp wire. That’s how I lost my first husband, you know.” She winked at Benjamin with her good eye. “I don’t want to lose husband seven before he becomes number seven. We haven’t even consummated our relationship yet.

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